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1. Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
Episode: Part II (1982)

120 min | Biography, Drama

When Gloria's sister-in-law refuses to give back her daughter to her, she hires a lawyer and a no-holds-barred custody battle begins, quickly becoming the most famous and scandalous court case of the Depression Era US thanks to tabloids.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Barnard Hughes

Votes: 75

2. Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
Episode: Part I (1982)

120 min | Biography, Drama

Beautiful 18-year-old debutante Gloria Morgan marries the much older heir of the Vanderbilt fortune. When he dies right after the birth of their baby girl (also named Gloria), Gloria moves to the libertine France, aggravating the family.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Christopher Plummer, Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam

Votes: 75

3. Braveheart (1995)

R | 178 min | Biography, Drama, War

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen

Votes: 1,092,537 | Gross: $75.60M

4. In the Name of the Father (1993)

R | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King

Votes: 187,310 | Gross: $25.01M

5. The Sweeney (1975–1978)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police. They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.

Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, John Alkin

Votes: 2,660

6. Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Certain events which had an impact on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, while he was still a medical student under the supervision of Dr. Bell, his teacher and mentor, on whom the character of Sherlock Holmes is partly drawn from.

Stars: Ian Richardson, Charles Edwards, Simon Chandler, Mossie Smith

Votes: 774

7. Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)
Episode: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1 (2000)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. Joseph Bell.

Director: Paul Seed | Stars: Ian Richardson, Sean Wightman, Robin Laing, Dolly Wells

Votes: 784

8. Billy Elliot (2000)

R | 110 min | Drama, Music

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven

Votes: 143,005 | Gross: $22.00M

9. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode: Pay Off (1976)

TV-PG | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Carter is asked by an old flame, Shirley Glass, to try and help her locate her partner Eddie, who has gone missing. Eventually Eddie, a small time crook, is discovered but he is well and ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, Dave King

Votes: 110

10. The Hours (2002)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Romance

The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.

Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane

Votes: 138,604 | Gross: $41.68M

11. Midnight Express (1978)

R | 121 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli

Votes: 88,315 | Gross: $35.00M

12. War of the Buttons (1994)

PG | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoelaces, and underwear of their captured opponents, in order to get the boys in trouble ... See full summary »

Director: John Roberts | Stars: Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara

Votes: 4,598 | Gross: $0.01M

13. Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)

180 min | Biography, Drama

The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.

Stars: Angela Lansbury, Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Glynis Johns

Votes: 876

14. Reds (1981)

PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski

Votes: 24,736 | Gross: $40.38M

15. Mission: Impossible (1996)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny

Votes: 470,859 | Gross: $180.98M

16. Quadrophenia (1979)

R | 120 min | Drama, Music

Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.

Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis, Mark Wingett

Votes: 20,897

17. Death and the Maiden (1994)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova

Votes: 26,840 | Gross: $2.10M

18. The Devil All the Time (2020)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.

Director: Antonio Campos | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland, Banks Repeta, Emilio Subercaseaux Campos

Votes: 152,956

19. Chicken Run (2000)

G | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.

Directors: Peter Lord, Nick Park | Stars: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson

Votes: 212,499 | Gross: $106.83M

20. Balto (1995)

G | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

An outcast Husky risks his life with other sled dogs to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.

Director: Simon Wells | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, Bridget Fonda, Jim Cummings

Votes: 48,186 | Gross: $11.35M

21. Memphis Belle (1990)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, War

In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in the UK prepares for its 25th and final bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney

Votes: 30,573 | Gross: $27.44M

22. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

R | 124 min | Drama, Romance

Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.

Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan

Votes: 15,108 | Gross: $22.60M

23. Last Orders (2001)

R | 109 min | Drama

A group of old friends reminisce about their lives over the years after the death of one of their crew.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings

Votes: 6,741 | Gross: $2.33M

24. Molokai (1999)

PG | 113 min | Biography, Drama

The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Director: Paul Cox | Stars: David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Jan Decleir, Chris Haywood

Votes: 1,469

25. The Sailor's Return (1978)

100 min | Drama

Set in the early days of the reign of Queen Victoria provides an unusual historical representation of a black person's experience of England.

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Tom Bell, Shope Shodeinde, Elton Charles, Denyse Alexander

Votes: 75

26. Paradise Road (1997)

R | 122 min | Drama, History, War

A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett

Votes: 5,936 | Gross: $1.92M

27. Damage (1992)

R | 111 min | Drama, Romance

A Member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's girlfriend despite the obvious dangers.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves

Votes: 20,575 | Gross: $7.53M

28. Performance (1970)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama

A violent East London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded Bohemian rock star and his two girlfriends.

Directors: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Stars: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton

Votes: 11,338 | Gross: $0.19M

29. Performance (1991–1998)
Episode: The Deep Blue Sea (1994)

100 min | Drama

A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.

Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Carmel McSharry, Stephen Tompkinson, Geraldine Somerville, Penelope Wilton

Votes: 115

30. Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama

Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.

Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp

Votes: 4,816 | Gross: $0.12M

31. Restoration (1995)

R | 117 min | Biography, Drama, History

The exiled royal doctor to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.

Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker

Votes: 9,928 | Gross: $4.10M

32. The Shout (1978)

86 min | Drama, Horror

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens

Votes: 5,226

33. Cal (1984)

R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller, Romance

A young man fraught with guilt longs to defect from the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is drawn to the widow of a slain Protestant policeman but must hide his secret that he was involved in her husband's murder and evade the authorities.

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh

Votes: 1,633

34. Performance (1991–1998)

180 min | Drama

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Stars: Ian Holm, Elizabeth McGovern, Ronald Pickup, Jane Horrocks

Votes: 93

35. Meeting Venus (1991)

PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and United Europe. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" ... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Kiri Te Kanawa, René Kollo

Votes: 1,423 | Gross: $1.00M

36. Wetherby (1985)

R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

Director: David Hare | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Marjorie Yates

Votes: 1,769 | Gross: $1.30M

37. My Life So Far (1999)

PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his ... See full summary »

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irène Jacob, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Votes: 3,156 | Gross: $0.62M

38. Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Having pulled off an escape from Tweedy's farm, Ginger has found a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new threat, and Ginger and her team decide to break in.

Director: Sam Fell | Stars: Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Imelda Staunton

Votes: 22,779

39. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

PG | 143 min | Adventure, Drama

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm

Votes: 21,278 | Gross: $45.90M

40. Yanks (1979)

R | 138 min | Drama, War

Joining WWII, USA ships soldiers to UK. Matt and John arrive in 1942. Each see a local woman - married or to be engaged with soldiers serving faraway.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane

Votes: 3,725 | Gross: $3.93M

41. The Bachelor (1990)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

A Pre-World War I physician in Austria struggles with his decision about which woman he will marry. Miranda Richardson plays the roles of two different women in his life.

Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Keith Carradine, Miranda Richardson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sarah-Jane Fenton

Votes: 140

42. The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery

Finbar is an Irish youth who, late one night, leapt from a freeway overpass and was never heard from again. When he suddenly reappears three years later, his family and friend Danny attempt to rebuilt their shattered lives.

Director: Sue Clayton | Stars: Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor, Chris Meehan

Votes: 652

43. The Saint (1997)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Simon "The Saint" Templar (Val Kilmer), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeriy Nikolaev

Votes: 72,315 | Gross: $61.36M

44. National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)

PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy

The Griswolds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively

Votes: 71,645 | Gross: $49.40M

45. Britannia Hospital (1982)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

The chaotic workings of a hospital with staff on strike.

Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt

Votes: 2,932

46. Krull (1983)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet, Krull.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis

Votes: 36,305 | Gross: $16.52M

47. Strapless (1989)

R | 99 min | Drama, Romance

An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.

Director: David Hare | Stars: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda, Alan Howard

Votes: 440 | Gross: $0.76M

48. Number One (1984 TV Movie)

106 min | Drama

A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.

Director: Les Blair | Stars: Bob Geldof, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, P.H. Moriarty

Votes: 97

49. I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A bored Italian socialite (Kim Basinger) abandons her jet-set lifestyle for the rigors and rewards of rural Kenya in this true story, based on the best-selling memoir by Kuki Gallmann. Directed by Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire).

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Liam Aiken, Garrett Strommen

Votes: 4,896 | Gross: $6.54M

50. Defunct (2008)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Director: Paul Rawson | Stars: Bunty Bailey, Shannen Doherty, Natalia Duran, Paul Rawson